RTÉ responded by publishing the unused results of the Irish televote, which showed that had the jury not been used, Turkey, whose entry was also overlooked by the Irish Jury, would still have won.

In the orthodox explanation of Herbert Feis, a series of aggressive Soviet actions in 1945 – 47 in Poland, Iran, Turkey and elsewhere awakened the American public to this new danger to freedom and Truman responded.

For example, World Vision responded to famine in Ethiopia and North Korea, hurricanes in Central America, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean nations, earthquakes in El Salvador, India, Taiwan, Turkey and the Sichuan earthquake in China, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and war refugees in Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Angola, and East Timor.

For example, World Vision responded to famine in Ethiopia and North Korea, hurricanes in Central America, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean nations earthquakes in El Salvador, India, Taiwan, Turkey and the Sichuan earthquake in China, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and war refugees in Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Angola, and East Timor.

In Turkey for example, the ritual prayers are performed regularly by 44 %, whereas Friday prayers were regularly attended by 56 % ( 25 % responded that they sometimes attended and 19 % that they never did ).

DART responded to a 7. 4-magnitude earthquake that hit north-western Turkey on August 17, 1999.

They all responded, except the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate whose seat is in Istanbul, Turkey.

Most notably UMCOR has recently responded to hurricane disasters in the United States, the December 26, 2004 tsunami in South East Asia, earthquakes in Turkey and Pakistan, political upheaval in Kosovo, famines in Southern and Eastern Africa, and a volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

Aegean surface water circulates in a counter-clockwise gyre, with hypersaline Mediterranean water moving northward along the west coast of Turkey, before being displaced by less dense Black Sea outflow.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

Beginning in the west of Antalya province, the south-facing Mediterranean coast of Turkey is separated from the interior by steep ranges, known as the Taurus mountains, that run along the entire length of the coast.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

* 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden – Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

The economic development of the city was followed by population growth and Bursa became the 4th most populous city in Turkey.

In 1992, Turkey decided to change their operational functionality at the hot pursuits to take action against the organization's camps, launching major operations commencing at the end of 1992.

* 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh

The Italians ' decisive military victories over the Ottoman Empire greatly influenced the Balkan states to prepare for war against Turkey.

In the conferences during World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin openly requested the concession of Soviet military bases on the Straits, even though Turkey was not involved in the war.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

A stretch of land containing the later strategic strongholds of Amida ( Diyarbakır, Turkey ) and Bezabde came under firm Roman military occupation.

In Loizidou v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that jurisdiction of member states to the convention extended to areas under that state's effective control as a result of military action.

The monarchy came to an end on 1 September 1969 when a group of military officers led by Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ’ état against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment.

Necmettin Erbakan, was the first Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey elected in 1996, but was removed from power by a 1997 military memorandum ( Turkey ) | " postmodern coup d ' état " in 1997.

* 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

The act grants $ 400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.

After training he went to work for the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves, who were at the time destabilizing Turkey, which led to a military coup in 1980.

Nations that permit gay people to serve openly in the military include the 4 of the 5 members of the UN Security Council ( United States, United Kingdom, France, and Russia ), the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Australia, Israel, Argentina, and all NATO members excluding Turkey.

Some of its key military export projects include T-155 Firtina self-propelled artillery for Turkey ; K11 air-burst rifle for United Arab Emirates ; Bangabandhu class guided-missile frigate for Bangladesh ; fleet tankers such as Sirius class for the navies of Australia, New Zealand, and Venezuela ; Makassar class amphibious assault ships for Indonesia ; and KT-1 trainer for Turkey and Indonesia.

In May 2010, Turkey and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia also signed a military training agreement, in keeping with the provisions outlined in the Djibouti Peace Process.

The Republic of Ararat ( Ağrı Province, Turkey ), the Republic of Mehabad ( West Azerbaijan Province, Iran ) and the Kingdom of Kurdistan ( Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq ), each of these fledgling states was crushed by military intervention.

Since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the modern secular Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish military has perceived itself as the guardian of Atatürkçülük, the official state ideology.

Turkey will build new military / intelligence satellites including a 0. 8m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-1 ) for use by the Turkish Armed Forces and a 2m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-2 ) for use by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization.

The Turkish Armed Forces ( TAF ) ( or TSK ) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey.

Some examples of " terrorism " in non-democracies include ETA in Spain under Francisco Franco ( although the group's terrorist activities increased sharply after Franco's death ), the Shining Path in Peru under Alberto Fujimori, the Kurdistan Workers Party when Turkey was ruled by military leaders and the ANC in South Africa.

The United States was secretly encouraging the shipment of military equipment from Iran, Turkey, and Jordan to Pakistan, reimbursing those countries despite Congressional objections.

* September 12 – Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey.